Lee Min Ho & Kong Hyo Jin's ”Because the Stars Are Rumored” - Must-see! ”Collection of Space Words” Revealed... Broadcast Starts January 4th

Lee Min-ho and Gong Hyo-jin star in ‘Because the Stars Are Buzzing’ has released a ‘space word collection’.

The new tvN Saturday and Sunday drama ‘Because the Stars Are Buzzing’ follows the extraterrestrial life of Eve Kim (Gong Hyo-jin), who works at a zero-gravity space station, and Gong Ryong (Lee Min-ho), an uninvited guest with a secret mission.

It heralds the birth of Korea's first space office story and is attracting attention as a promising film for the first half of tvN 2025. To this, we have compiled a list of words you should know before the launch of the spaceship.

The space station (ILS), which serves as the key backdrop for ‘Because the Stars Woo’, is a space in a state of extreme microgravity with almost no gravitational pull, where astronauts study various fields such as dementia, infertility and intractable diseases. As astronauts from all over the world are gathered here, modules installed by various countries, including Russia and the USA, are docked to the space station.

The space station is also well equipped with living spaces such as kitchens, bedrooms and toilets, including a biological module, which is a research space fitted by Korean space researchers. This has led to a great deal of curiosity as to what space tourists Gong Ryong (Lee Min-ho) and Eve Kim (Gong Hyo-jin), space scientists Kang Gang-su (Oh Jung-se), Mina Lee (Lee Cho-hee) and Lee Seung-joon (Ho Nam-joon) are doing for the day in the module.

IOU stands for ‘Intenational institute Of space United’, a fictional international organisation that only appears in ‘Because the stars are buzzing’. In the play, Kang Tae-hee (Lee El) is the first woman of Korean descent to serve as deputy director of the space centre.

The MCC, a ground control centre, is the real workspace where Kang Tae-hee, astronaut Park Dong-ah (Kim Joo-hoon), space doctor Donna Lee (Lee Cho-hee), flight operations director Han Si-won (Lee Hyun-kyun) and experiment partner Ma Eun-su (Park Ye-young) work. Workspace.

Meanwhile, tvN's new Saturday and Sunday drama ‘Because the Stars Woo’ will begin airing in South Korea on the 4th January at 9:20pm.